Kabul / AFP The Afghan Taliban have released aerial footage of a suicide car bombing in southern Helmand province, marking the first time the media-savvy militant group has used a drone to record an attack. The 23-minute video shows a suicide bomber ramming a Humvee into a military base in volatile Nawa district, triggering a mushroom cloud of flames and …

  Rutba / AFP Iraqi security forces on Tuesday regained full control of a western town that was attacked by IS group militants two days earlier, officials said. Seeking to draw attention away from an offensive to retake the city of Mosul, IS struck the town of Rutba in the country’s west and Kirkuk in the north in recent days. “Our …

  Mogadishu / AFP A Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an African Union military base in central Somalia on Tuesday, a security official said. The explosion was followed by heavy gunfire at the Djiboutian base in the city of Beledweyne. Witness Ismail Mahad described seeing “clouds of smoke caused by the heavy blast” followed by “exchange …